Brian M Nguyen, MD| General Surgery, Transplant Surgery | MedStar Health
About me
Dr. Nguyen is a board-certified, fellowship-trained abdominal transplant and hepatopancreaticobiliary (HPB) surgeon. His areas of special expertise include liver and small bowel transplantation and HPB surgery. His areas of clinical interest include pancreas cancer, pancreatic cysts, liver tumors, and biliary disease. He is particularly interested in minimally invasive HPB surgery, utilizing Da Vinci Xi Surgical system.
He holds certifications in laparoscopic and robotic surgery, with use of the Da Vinci Xi Surgical System. Dr. Nguyen has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, including Transplantation Direct, Journal of American College of Surgeons, Journal of Critical Care, American Journal of Transplantation, and Gastroenterology and has presented at national conferences and symposia.
Dr. Nguyen received his Doctor of Medicine from Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO and completed his residency at University of Southern California/LAC+USC General Surgery in Los Angeles, where he received the program’s Outstanding Resident Award. He completed his fellowship in abdominal transplant at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital.
He works closely with all of his patients to ensure they’re actively involved in decisions about their care. Dr. Nguyen also educates patients about their condition so they have the knowledge and understanding they need to continue to manage their condition throughout their lives.
When he’s not at work, Dr. Nguyen enjoys cooking, spending time outdoors, and going to the beach.
Clinical areas of focus
- Infertility
- Liver Cancer Surgery
- Liver-Kidney Transplantation
- Organ Donation
- Pancreas And Kidney Transplant
- Pancreatic Cancer Surgery
- Transplantation Of Intestine
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Acquired Absence Of Organs
- Aplastic Anemias And Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes
- Artificial Liver Opening
- Artificial Openings Complications
- Ascites
- Benign Neoplasm Of Digestive System
- Biliary Tract Disease
- Bone Marrow Transplant
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Complications Of Kidney Transplant
- Complications Of Transplanted Organs And Tissue
- Congenital Malformations Of Gallbladder, Bile Ducts And Liver
- Corneal Transplant
- Cytomegaloviral (CMV) Infection
- Dialysis Access Creation And Maintenance
- Disorders Involving The Immune Mechanism
- Disorders Of Branched
- Disorders Of Carbohydrate Metabolism
- Disorders Of Fluid, Electrolyte And Acid
- Disorders Of Mineral Metabolism
- Donors Of Organs And Tissues
- Family History Of Malignant Neoplasm
- Functional Intestinal Disorders
- Graft Failure
- Heart Transplant Surgery
- Immunodeficiencies
- Infertility
- Intestinal Infections
- Intrahepatic Bile Ducts Cancer
- Kidney Failure In Transplant Patients
- Liver Cancer Treatment In Transplant Patients
- Liver Cirrhosis
- Liver Failure
- Liver Transplant Evaluation
- Liver Transplantation
- Living Donor Liver Transplant
- Long Term Drug Therapy
- Lung Transplant Rejection
- Malabsorption
- Necrotizing Vasculopathies
- Neutropenia
- Obstructive And Reflux Uropathy
- Organ Donation After Cardiac Death
- Organ Donor Matching
- Pancreas Cancer
- Persons Encountering Health Services
- Polycystic Liver Disease
- Renal Artery Thrombosis
- Transplanted Kidney Failure
- Transplanted Kidney Malfunction
- Transplanted Organ And Tissue Status
- Transplanted Organ Failure
- Venous Embolism
- Viral Hepatitis
Procedures I perform
- Abdominal Organ Transplantation
- Adrenal Gland Cancer Management
- Auxiliary Liver Transplantation
- Backbench Liver Graft Reconstruction
- Bile Duct Biopsy
- Bile Duct Cancer Treatment
- Bile Duct Repair
- Bladder Stone Removal
- Blood Chemistry Test
- Capitation
- Cholangiocarcinoma Treatment
- Cholecystectomy
- Choledochojejunostomy
- Chronic Liver Disease Treatment
- Companionship
- Deceased Donor Transplantation
- Distal Pancreatectomy
- Domino Liver Transplantation
- Donor Organ Procurement
- Dopamine Therapy
- Enterocele Repair
- Enucleation
- Gallbladder Cancer Treatment
- Gallbladder Removal
- Gallstone Removal
- Gastric Stenting
- Gastric Surgery
- Genitourinary Fistula Treatment
- Gynecological Cancer Screening
- Hepatic Artery Aneurysm Repair
- Hepatic Artery Embolization
- Hepatic Artery Infusion
- Hepatic Artery Reconstruction
- Hepatic Vein Thrombosis Treatment
- Hepaticojejunostomy
- Intestinal Atresia Treatment
- Intestinal Reconstruction
- Intestine Transplantation With Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastomosis
- Islet Xenotransplant
- Isolated Small Bowel Transplantation
- Isolated Small Intestine Transplant
- Kidney Resection
- Kidney-Intestine Transplantation
- Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation
- Liver Abscess Drainage
- Liver Abscess Treatment
- Liver Biopsy
- Liver Cancer Surgery
- Liver Cancer Treatment
- Liver Cyst Removal
- Liver Cyst Treatment
- Liver Health Screening
- Liver Hemangioma Treatment
- Liver Imaging
- Liver Resection
- Liver Transplantation
- Liver Transplantation With Inferior Vena Cava Replacement
- Liver Transplantation With Roux-En-Y Hepaticojejunostomy
- Liver-Intestine Transplantation
- Liver-Kidney Transplantation
- Liver-Pancreas Transplantation
- Living Donor Liver Transplantation
- Living Donor Transplantation
- Lobectomy
- Multi-Organ Transplantation
- Multivisceral Transplantation
- Open Partial Nephrectomy
- Organ Donation
- Pancreas Allograft Pancreatectomy
- Pancreas Allograft Preparation
- Pancreas And Kidney Transplant
- Pancreas Resection
- Pancreas Transplant Failure Treatment
- Pancreas Transplant Malfunction
- Pancreas Transplant Rejection Treatment
- Pancreas-Intestine Transplantation
- Pancreatic Biopsy
- Pancreatic Cancer Surgery
- Pancreatic Cancer Treatment
- Pancreatic Cyst Drainage
- Pancreatic Cyst Treatment
- Pancreatic Disease Treatment
- Pancreatic Function Tests
- Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor Surgery
- Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumor Treatment
- Pancreatic Pseudocyst Treatment
- Pancreatic Surgery
- Pancreaticoduodenectomy
- Partial Hepatectomy
- Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy Of Kidney Pelvis
- Percutaneous Pseudocyst Drainage
- Portal Vein Reconstruction
- Reduced-Size Liver Transplantation
- Removal Of Transplanted Kidney
- Removal Of Transplanted Organ
- Small Bowel Transplantation
- Small Intestine Cancer Surgery
- Split Liver Transplantation
- Stomach Drainage
- Transhepatic Cholangiography
- Transplant Evaluation
- Transplant Glomerulopathy Treatment
- Transplant Infection Treatment
- Transplantation Of Intestine
- Urologic Imaging
- Uvulopalatoplasty
- Visceral Artery Aneurysm Treatment
- Von Willebrand Factor Replacement
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (POS & POS OA)
- Blue Choice Advantage
- CareFirst Community Health Plan of MD
- Optima Family Care MCO - VA Medicaid MCO
- Humana Gold Plus HMO
- Employee Health Plan
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- Aetna Advantage 5750
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Standard
- Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- CareFirst NASCO
- HumanaChoice Honor's plan PPO
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Dual Adv
- Amerigroup DC Alliance
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- IH-PPO
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus
- Optimum Choice & Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) Cardiac Global
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Advantage Core/Enhanced
- CIGNA PPO Plus
- DC/MD SHOP QHP Small Business Plans
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- United Healthcare Choice
- Choice Fund PPO
- OA Plus
- HealthyBlue PPO
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- Priority Partners - Maryland Health Choice
- IH-Network Only Plus
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- United Medicare Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) plans
- Optimum Choice
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO)
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS Cardiac Global
- CareFirst EPO
- IH-EPO Plus
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- Geisinger Medicare Advantage
- Amerigroup DC Healthy Families
- IH-Indemnity
- United Healthcare Choice Cardiac Global
- Cigna Preferred Medicare (HMO)
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- TRICARE for Life East
- Medicare Direct
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthy Families
- Aetna Classic 5000
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- Jai Medical Systems - Maryland Health Choice
- Medicare FFS
- HumanaChoice PPO
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- Humana Medicare Advantage - PPO
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PPO
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (HMO)
- Maryland Physicians Care MCO
- First Health PPO
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs
- Anthem BCBS of VA Key Care POS/PPO/Indemnity
- CIGNA EPO
- Kaiser Permanente Select Cardiac Global
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- Choice POS
- CIGNA Indemnity
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- Choice POS II
- IH-Open EPO Plus
- BlueChoice Open Access
- UHC Passport
- Humana Medicare Advantage - HMO Open Access
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- United Healthcare Select HMO-EPO/NPP Cardiac Global
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- IH-POS Plus
- IH-Open HMO Option
- AMERIVANTAGE/Amerigroup Community Care
- United HealthCare Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- CIGNA SureFit (HMO)
- POS OA
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- Network OA
- Uniformed Services Family Health Plan
- Private Fee-for-Service Plans (PFFS)
- TRICARE East Select
- CIGNA Connect EPO
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice 3-tier POS
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- United Healthcare Community Plan - VA Medicaid MCO
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- Aetna Premier 200PD
- Aetna Better Health of MD
- Erickson Advantage Plans
- Aetna HMO
- CIGNA HMO Open Access
- CIGNA PPO
- BCBS of Michigan (BCN Advantage,Security Blue, Freedom, Medicare PLUS Blue Group PPO)
- Aetna Advantage 6350
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- United Healthcare Choice Plus Cardiac Global
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- Magellan Complete Care of VA - VA Medicaid MCO
- Private Health Care Systems (PPO)
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- CareFirst Maryland Point of Service Plan
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PLUS PPO
- Sentara Health
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO) Cardiac Global
- TRICARE East Prime
- Medicare Advantage - Advantra Value (PPO)
- Kaiser Permaenete Signature - Added Choice Cardiac Global
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- IH-Open HMO
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- First Health PPO
- Alterwood Advanatge HMO & DSNP Plans
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- CareFirst Administrators
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- Kaiser Permanente Select - Added Choice
- Aetna Better Health of VA
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthcare Alliance
- Police and Fire Clinic
- Beech Street PPO
- United Healthcare Options (PPO)
- United Student Resources
- UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans (HMO, POS, PPO)
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- Advantra Platinum (PPO)
- Fee-for-Service (FFS) District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Medicaid
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- HUMANA/Choice Care Medicare Plans (Choice, Gold Choice)
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD HMO
- Aetna Basic
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv. Special Needs Plans
- United Healthcare Navigate Cardiac Global
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- Navigate
- IH-Open POS II
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS)
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- MD IPA (HMO) & MD IPA Preferred Cardiac Global
- IH-HMO
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- Core Essential (HMO)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Plus
- IH-Open POS Plus
- IH-Open Network Only Plus
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue SNP
- IH-POS
- Aetna Advantage 6350PD
- Aetna Classic 5000PD
- CareFirst BlueChoice HMO
- Kaiser Permanente HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- Tricare Reserve Select
- Aetna Medicare Advantage PFFS Plan
- MultiPlan, Inc
- CareFirst Dual Prime HMO-SNP
- TriWest Healthcare Alliance
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- OCI Direct (HMO)
- Options PPO Cardiac Global
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- Lasso Healthcare - Medicare Medical Savings Account
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers Plus
- Aetna VA Exchange
- CareFirst Blue Card Program
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- BCBS Out-of-State Medicare Plans (Blue Advantage)
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Kaiser Permanente Signature - Added Choice
- NYC Medicare Advantage Plus
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- Choice POS II Open Access
- CareFirst Blue Preferred PPO
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- Aetna Classic 3500
- CareFirst Federal Employee Program (Std. & Basic PPO)
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Basic
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- HighMark
- CareFirst FEP Blue Focus
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Surgery, General Surgery
Fellowship: Georgetown University School of Medicine GME (2021)
Residency: University of Southern California Medical Center (2019)
Medical School: St Louis University School of Medicine (2014)